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Higher Education Institutions

Before and during the course of all editions of RFYR, we established many partnerships with all sorts of institutions, organisations and communities whose help made this project successful. By providing logistic support, putting together events, reaching out to the media and the general public, giving workshops and sharing their expertise, these entities were fundamental for us to reach our goals.

Sports science is a rather young discipline, rapidly evolving and differentiating world-wide, also in Austria. Currently, four professorships exist at the Institute of Sport Science (ISS) of the University of Vienna (sports/movement pedagogy, sports physiology, sports sociology, kinesiology with focus on biomechanics and applied computer science), while another one is in occupation (training science and kinesiology with focus on biology).

The University of West Hungary was founded by merger of Soproni Egyetem (University of Sopron, f. 1762 as Academy of Mining and Forestry), Mosonmagyaróvár Faculty of Agriculture (f. 1818) of Pannon Agrártudományi Egyetem (Pannon University of Agricultural Sciences), Apáczai Csere János Teacher Training College (f. 1778), Benedek Elek College of Education (f. 1959), and Berzsenyi Dániel College (f. 1959), is one of the top higher educational institutions in Hungary.

Founded in 1885 in Temesvár-Vadászerdő as a vocational school for the training of rangers, specialized for the training of forestry and wildlife management technicians, woodworking technicians and environmental protection technicians, Roth Gyula Gyakorló Szakközépiskola és Kollégium is the training school of the Nyugat-magyarországi Egyetem and offers teaching experience for engineering graduates working for their MA in Vocational Education and Training.